Everyday Innovators

by Haddon, Leslie; Mante, Enid; Sapio, Bartolomeo

• ISBN13: 9781402035104
• ISBN10: 1402035101
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-31
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Everyday Innovators explores the active role of people, collectively and individually, in shaping the use of information and communication technologies. It examines issues around acquiring and using that knowledge of users, how we should conceptualise the role of users and understand the forms and limitations of their participation.To what extent should we think of users as being innovative and creative?To what extent is this routine or exceptional, confined to particular group of users or part of many people's experience of technologies?Where does the nature of the ICT or the particularities of its design impose constraints on the active role that users can play in their interaction with devices and services?Where do the horizons and orientations of the users influence or limit what they want and expect of their ICTs and how they use them?This book enables a cross-fertilisation of perspectives from different disciplines and aims to provide new insights into the role of users, drawing out both applied and theoretical implications

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(16)
Frameworks: The Social, Unpredictable, and Innovatory Use of ICTs	17	(50)
Beyond User-Centric Models of Product Creation	21	(18)
Ilkka Tuomi
Following the Emergence of Unpredictable Uses? New Stakes and Tasks for a Social Scientific Understanding of ICT Uses	39	(15)
Alexandre Mallard
The Innovatory Use of ICTs	54	(13)
Leslie Haddon
Empirical Studies: Users as Innovators and Critics	67	(50)
Supporting Creativity -- Co-experience in Mobile Multimedia Messaging	71	(15)
Katja Battarbee
Esko Kurvinen
The Social Shaping of New Mobile Devices Among Italian Youth	86	(18)
Fausto Colombo
Barbara Scifo
Creative User-Centered Design Practices: Lessons from Game Cultures	104	(13)
Olli Sotamaa
Innovation and Artistics Users	117	(34)
Artistic Deviance and Innovation in Use	121	(15)
Emmanuel Mahe
The Mobile Multimedia Phone and Artistic Expression: A Case Study of Moby Click	136	(15)
Heli Rantavuo
Problems of Researching and Involving Users in Design	151	(50)
Questioning the ``Rural'' Adoption and Use of ICTs	155	(13)
Rosemarie Gilligan
Dealing with Dilemmas in Pre-competitive ICT Development Projects: The Construction of ``The Social'' in Designing New Technologies	168	(16)
Sander Limonard
Nicole de Koning
Test Scenarios and the Excluded User	184	(17)
Jarmo Sarkkinen
The Politics of User Involvement in Programes of Innovation	201	(32)
The Construction of ``Equal Agency'' in the Development of Technology	203	(15)
Marja Vehvilainen
Community--Technology Interfaces in Participatory Planning: Tool or Tokenism?	218	(15)
Somya Joshi
Conclusion	233